Moving away from the death penalty
Subtitle: arguments, trends and perspectives
By: editor: Ivan Šimonović
Publisher: United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Capital punishment; Discrimination in capital punishment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Preface / -- Ban Ki-moon (UN Secretary-General); title: Introduction : an abolitionist's perspective  -- Ivan Šimonović -- Chapter 1 . Wrongful Convictions.; title: Without DNA evidence I'd still be behind bars  -- Kirk Bloodsworth; title: DNA evidence casts light on flaws in system  -- Brandon Garrett; title: In the United States, growing doubts about the death penalty  -- Gil Garcetti; title: Wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice in death penalty trials in the Caribbean, Africa and Asia  -- Saul Lehrfreund -- Chapter 2. Myth of Deterrence.; title: Deterrence and public opinion  -- Carolyn Hoyle & Roger Hood -- Chapter 3. Discrimination.; title: Terrors of prison fade slowly  -- Damien Echols; title: Damien Echols and the West Memphis Three Case  -- Stephen Braga; title: Imposition of the death penalty upon the poor, racial minorities, the intellectually disabled and the mentally ill  -- Steve Bright; title: Death penalty in the Commonwealth Caribbean : justice out of reach?  -- Arif Bulkan; title: Death penalty in India : down a slippery slope  -- Usha Ramanathan; title: Death penalty in Botswana : barriers to equal justice  -- Alice Mogwe; title: Death penalty in Zimbabwe : Legal ambiguities  -- Innocent Maja -- Chapter 4. Values.; title: World religions and the death penalty  -- Mario Marazziti; title: Towards a moratorium on the death penalty  -- Paul Bhatti -- Chapter 5. Trends and Perspectives.; title: Global death penalty trends since 2012  -- Salil Shetty; title: Leadership and the abolition of the death penalty -- Federico Mayor.